Curtain bracket



March 20, 1934. J D CARLO 1,951,969

CURTAIN BRACKET Filed June 28, 1933 J71. 0W WW" M'Ml" M mil"! fig Z14Patented Mar. 20, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT orricr.

2 Claims.

The object of the invention is to provide a curtain bracket adapted forapplication to the frame of a window to support a curtain rod thereonand permit the ready adjustment of the rod thereon in a vertical plane,so as to secure the proper hang of the curtains with reference to thewindows and particularly the sill thereof; to provide a curtain bracketin which the above indicated adjustment may be effected without the useof tools; and generally to provide a bracket of the kind indicated whichis of simple form and therefore susceptible of cheap manufacture.

With this object in view, the invention consists in a construction andcombination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is illustrated inthe accompanying drawing but to which embodiment the invention is not tobe restricted. Continued use in practice may dictate certain changes oralterations and the right is claimed to make any which fall within thescope of the annexed claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of the upper portion of a window frameshowing the invention applied in operative position thereon.

Figure 2 is an enlarged front elevational view of the improved bracket.

Figure 3 is a rear elevational view.

Figure 4 is an end elevational view.

Figure 5 is a sectional View on the plane indicated by the line 55 ofFigure 2.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the latch member.

The bracket constituting the invention is de-' signed to be used inpairs and with one mounted at each side of the window frame as indicatedin Figure 1 of the drawing, so as to support the curtain rod 10 in atransverse position across the window frame. The bracket is formed of ametal strip 11 turned at its longitudinal edges as indicated at 12 toprovide flanges which resist distortion of the strip, the strip, whenmounted, being set away from the window frame by reason of the feetportions 14 being offset from the body of the strip. The feet 14 areformed with central holes 15, so that the bracket may be secured to thewindow frame by screws passed through the holes.

A slide 16 is mounted on the body strip 11 and extends across the latterand is bent down and under the edges of the flanges 12, so that it isprecluded from leaving the body strip but may move up and down thelatter. The body strip 11 is formed with a longitudinal slot 1'7 in oneside edge'of which there are formed the series of notches 18 which actas seats for the latch member 19, the latter being in the form of aresilient tongue secured to the slide 16 in common with the post 20 towhich the curtain rod 10 is attached.

The latch member 19 is formed from resilient sheet metal and at the freeend has an angularly turned portion 21 slotted as indicated at 22 toleave a tongue member 23, the extremity of which member is turnedright-angularly as indicated at 24 to provide a lip functioning as astop member. A right-angularly disposed lip 25 is formed at theextremity of the angularly turned portion 21. The angularly turnedportion 21 passes through the slots 17 and the spring tendency of thelatch member moves it in a direction to bring the lip 24 against theunder face of the body strip 11, at which time the lip 25 will beengaged in one of the notches 18. Thus the slide 16 will be lockedagainst movement on the body strip 11. Desiring to adjust the bodystrip, the latch member is depressed, which will result in disengagingthe lip 25 from its engaged notch 18, when the slide may be moved alongthe body strip to the new position on the latter which it is to assumeand which determines the adjustment of the curtain rod 10. Release ofpressure on the latch member then permits it to return to its normalposition with the lip 25 engaged in a new notch 18.

The slot 17, at the end of the body strip is extended onto the oifsetportion of the latter and further extended in a lateral direction asindicated at 26, so as to provide a clearance slot for the passage ofthe stop tongue, when it is desired to remove the slide from the bodystrip, such as when it would be necessary to repair the latch member orslide or to replace the same.

It is evident that when a pair of brackets are attached to a. windowframe as indicated in Figure 1 and the curtain rod arranged in spanningrelation to the two, adjustment of the rod in a vertical plane may bequickly made by shifting the slides along the body strips 11 whileholding the latch members in released position.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and usefulis:

l. A window shade bracket comprising a metallic strip and means forsecuring the same to a window frame to hold the strip spaced from thelatter, a slide mounted on the strip and provided with means forsupporting a curtain rod, the strip being formed with a longitudinalslot with uniformly spaced notches cut in one side edge thereof, and alatch member carried by the slide and extending through the slot andhaving a lip selectively engageable in any of the notches, the

slide and extending through the slot and having a lip selectivelyengageable in any of the notches, the latch member being formed ofresilient material and having a spring tendency in a direction to keepthe lip engaged in a notch, the latch member having a stop lip inengagement with the back face of the strip to limit the movement of thelatch member in the direction in which it is normally impelled.

JACK DI CARLO.

